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The Bad, The Good and the Yikes!
Aug. 16th, 2009 01:54 pmHome from a relaxing 9 days at the coast. Trying to catch up, but whew!
The Bad: 4 days into vacation, my beloved Toshiba laptop died. Kapootie. It was fine the night before, but when I opened the lid the next morning, instead of a blue light on the power button and the familiar warm up sound and screen, it's cold, dead. It had left the building.
The Good: I had already bought a new laptop, a Sony VAIO and had transferred files before I left.
The Yikes: Didn't take the new laptop with me. I debated back and forth. The Toshiba had been running just fine, though, and I was having trouble registering MS Word program for some reason, I didn't have a second carrying case. I'd only be using the new one for playing the newer version of Spider Solitaire. I was still learning Vista. But the big argument was with my luck, the Toshiba would die on me and then I'd be computer-less. But that argument lost out. It should have won and then I wouldn't have been computer-less for 5 days. I almost paid my son to drive over and bring it to me, but then I decided it could be a test of character, to prove that I could get along without a computer. And so I did. Hand wrote my 100 words per day, but didn't do more than that. Of course, I wasn't doing more than that anyway, so it really didn't matter. I think I lost a revised copy of a file or two. I run Dropbox, but I'd turned it off over there because I only use dial-up and it's too slow. But since I wasn't writing much anyway, there really wasn't all that much to lose.
So all in all, it was okay. Got a lot of reading done. But had another DOH moment! I took a book I was about 1/3 of the way through and I was having trouble getting into the story and the characters, which I thought was highly unlike the writer. I kept thinking I'd just been dropped into the story without any preamble and I was lost trying to keep the characters straight and figure out who they were and what the heck they were doing. I got halfway through the book and finally realized I was reading book 2 of a 3 book series. I have book 1, I'd just grabbed the wrong one. DUH! No wonder I was having trouble. Now to go back and start at the *REAL* beginning.
The Bad: 4 days into vacation, my beloved Toshiba laptop died. Kapootie. It was fine the night before, but when I opened the lid the next morning, instead of a blue light on the power button and the familiar warm up sound and screen, it's cold, dead. It had left the building.
The Good: I had already bought a new laptop, a Sony VAIO and had transferred files before I left.
The Yikes: Didn't take the new laptop with me. I debated back and forth. The Toshiba had been running just fine, though, and I was having trouble registering MS Word program for some reason, I didn't have a second carrying case. I'd only be using the new one for playing the newer version of Spider Solitaire. I was still learning Vista. But the big argument was with my luck, the Toshiba would die on me and then I'd be computer-less. But that argument lost out. It should have won and then I wouldn't have been computer-less for 5 days. I almost paid my son to drive over and bring it to me, but then I decided it could be a test of character, to prove that I could get along without a computer. And so I did. Hand wrote my 100 words per day, but didn't do more than that. Of course, I wasn't doing more than that anyway, so it really didn't matter. I think I lost a revised copy of a file or two. I run Dropbox, but I'd turned it off over there because I only use dial-up and it's too slow. But since I wasn't writing much anyway, there really wasn't all that much to lose.
So all in all, it was okay. Got a lot of reading done. But had another DOH moment! I took a book I was about 1/3 of the way through and I was having trouble getting into the story and the characters, which I thought was highly unlike the writer. I kept thinking I'd just been dropped into the story without any preamble and I was lost trying to keep the characters straight and figure out who they were and what the heck they were doing. I got halfway through the book and finally realized I was reading book 2 of a 3 book series. I have book 1, I'd just grabbed the wrong one. DUH! No wonder I was having trouble. Now to go back and start at the *REAL* beginning.
